The world’s bee colonies are dying mysteriously, and a study from Landau University suggests that mobile phones may be to blame. The colonies are subject to “Colony Collapse Disorder,” (science-ese for “we don’t know where all these bees have gone”) and the disorder accounts for the death of anywhere from 50-70 percent of bee colonies. Since bees pollinate most crops, flowers and fruiting trees, the end of bees is seriously bad news for the world’s food supply.
It’s been long understood that bees respond to electromagnetic radiation. Dr Jochen Kuhn at Germany’s Landau University has shown that bees don’t return to their hives when cellphones are present. The study doesn’t prove that cellphones are responsible for CCD, but it does provide evidence that mobile phones are implicated in the death of hives.
Wow, this is really scary. I mean bees are so basic that the shorthand for reproduction is “birds and bees.” Come to think of it, I think I noticed fewer bees around Casa NewMexiKen last summer.
Cell phones couldn’t kill ants or roaches or mosquitos. No, it had to be bees.
I can just see this now on a sign off a highway . . . “Bee Colony Ahead, No Cell Phones.”
Except bee colonies are, usually, everywhere. Well, they were. 60% are missing on the west coast, 70% in the east.
These are very scary statistic. Albert Einstein speculated that “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.” What can we do? What should we do to stop our self destruction. We need to cooperate with nature, and not force nature to cooperate with us. Let’s be sustainable and work our foundation so we can move forward. Peace.
It appears the demise of the bees may be caused by a fungus.
The Einstein quotation has been dismissed as false. In any case, he was a physicist not a biologist.
But I agree about cooperating with nature, Eddy. We are, after all, part of nature.